Discretion is advised.

This is 10-minute murder.

Alex's initial story was that he was pulled over on an isolated road to change a tire on his car.

When an unidentified vehicle zoomed past,

firing a gun at Alex and hitting him in the head.

He wasn't seriously injured, and as soon as he was questioned by authorities while in the hospital,

his wild story began to come apart at the seams.

Investigators quickly discovered that Alex wasn't driving alone. He had a passenger,

Curtis Edward Smith, who was his relative and friend. When pressed about Curtis's involvement in

the incident, Alex eventually admitted that Curtis had been the one to shoot him because Alex had asked him to. It was a convoluted suicide

plan, and he'd wanted his suicide to appear to be a murder so that his eldest son, Buster,

would be able to collect a large payout on his life insurance policy. But obviously, the plan had

gone wrong, and despite being shot in the back of the head,

Alex was still alive and well. Two days after this failed suicide attempt, Alex wrote a statement

addressed to his family, friends, and colleagues, in which he apologized for his recent

actions and stated that he was about to go to rehab for his

substance abuse problem. Alex's accomplice, Curtis Smith, was arrested and charged with

assisting in a suicide attempt, attempted insurance fraud, and aggravated assault. Curtis argued

that, despite initially agreeing to the plan, he had not meant to shoot

Alex. He'd actually grabbed the gun to prevent Alex from shooting himself, and that the gun had

accidentally gone off. There was no version of events that truly made sense, but to police,

this story in particular seemed very unlikely.

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